. Biennial report of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture. 412 TENNESSEE AGRICULTURE surroundings, taught by sympathetic, educated and professionally trained teachers, with competent and intelligent supervision of its work, financed by a grateful and appreciative people, will bring untold benefits to your boys and girls and will effectively aid in the develop- ment of the state. Several speakers on the program for the morning were absent, but others were substituted, including Eli Haggard, the well-known lec- turer, who for more than an hour entertained a crowded house with his delightfu
. Biennial report of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture. 412 TENNESSEE AGRICULTURE surroundings, taught by sympathetic, educated and professionally trained teachers, with competent and intelligent supervision of its work, financed by a grateful and appreciative people, will bring untold benefits to your boys and girls and will effectively aid in the develop- ment of the state. Several speakers on the program for the morning were absent, but others were substituted, including Eli Haggard, the well-known lec- turer, who for more than an hour entertained a crowded house with his delightful lecture, "The Country ; Mr. Haggard kept his audience in a good humor, and no number on the program was better enjoyed. The lecture being coyprighted, the Secretary of the Institute could not secure it for publication. At the conclusion of his lecture Mr. Haggard was given a rising vote of thanks. NEED OF COUNTY INSTITUTES. The President presented Mr. H. K. Bryson, of Fayetteville, who addressed the convention on the ''Need of County ; He re- ferred most encouragingly to the movement, and said there were many things of value to be learned at these meetings of the farmers. He had himself learned, he said, from a boy present at this meeting how to grow corn; he had learned- from a little girl how to grow and can tomatoes, and from a club of Cumberland County boys how to grow potatoes and sell them at a profit. Mr. Bryson's address follows: NEED OF COUNTY INSTITUTES. The time has come when spe- cific education for the farmer is necessary. In past years it was not considered essential for a man who was to make his living on the farm to have an education, but conditions have changed. Many of our farm- ers have neglected their education, and very few have made a study of farming and farm work. Farm- ing is a science, and as so many of us have not had an opportunity to study it, what is the next best thing for us to do? We are forced to compete with men
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